New Slave Narrative - The Battle Over Representations of Contemporary Slavery

Murphy argues that the slave narrative has reemerged as a 21st-century genre that has gained new currency in the context of the memoir boom, post-9/11 anti-Islamic sentiment, and conservative family values politics. She reveals an emergent survivor-centered counterdiscourse of collaboration and systemic change.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Language
Preface
Introduction: The Reemergence of the Slave Narrative in the Twenty-First Century
1. Making Slavery Legible
2. The Not-Yet-Freedom Narrative
3. Blackface Abolition
4. Sex Problems and Antislavery’s Cognitive Dissonance
5. What the Genre Creates, It Destroys: The Rise and Fall of Somaly Mam
Conclusion: Collegial Reading
Appendix: List of New Slave Narratives
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Laura T. Murphy is professor of human rights and contemporary slavery in the Helena Kennedy Center for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University and author of Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives (Columbia, 2014).

Summary

Laura T. Murphy argues that the slave narrative has reemerged as a twenty-first-century genre that has gained new currency in the context of the memoir boom, post-9/11 anti-Islamic sentiment, and conservative family-values politics. The New Slave Narrative reveals an emergent survivor-centered counterdiscourse of collaboration and systemic change.

Additional text

Laura T. Murphy's The New Slave Narrative will become the foundational text for a wave of scholars working to understand what these stories mean—for society, for scholarship, and for survivors themselves.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Murphy, Laura (Assistant Professor Murphy, Murphy Laura
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780231188258
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18825-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Literary studies: from c 2000, slavery; books; reading